The company scored a record 1993, with earnings rising 18 percent, to $25.7 million. The agency was once again the top new-business performer among major agencies, adding $510 million in new assignments.

Chairman and chief executive Bruce Mason notes that the agency took concrete steps to enhance the personal stake Foote, Cone employees-FCB's largest shareholder group-have in the agency's success. The employee stock purchase plan was expanded globally, with 95 percent of FCB employees now owning stock.